Andrei Pavel

 

Andrei began playing tennis at age eight, and moved to Germany at age sixteen. Turned professional in 1995. He won three singles titles, including the ATP Masters Series tournament in Montreal/Toronto in 2001. He also won seven doubles titles, the latest title being the Open Seat Barcelona, in 2007.

Competed for more than 20 years on the ATP Tour.

Reached No. 13 in the FedEx ATP Rankings and won three singles titles, including the 2001 National Bank Open Presented by Rogers. Reached No. 18 in the FedEx ATP Doubles Rankings and won six doubles titles.

Attended five Olympic Games, and played for 20 years on the Romanian Davis Cup team.

Pavel played what John McEnroe considers to be the best first round match at a Grand Slam he has ever seen at the U.S. Open in August 2006, where he lost to Andre Agassi in four sets; 6–7⁽⁴⁾, 7–6⁽⁸⁾, 7–6⁽⁶⁾, 6–2; taking three and half hours. Had Pavel won, it would have been Agassi's last match in a professional tournament.

The Romanian, Andrei Pavel in 2002, while he was about to play a quarter-final at Roland Garros, he jumped into a car and made an express round-trip to Germany to attend the birth of his son. Which equals to 1000 miles in 24h, in the pouring rain with... Àlex Corretja waiting for his return on the Central. Story of an epic journey. "It's a bit odd that these two events overlapped, says the Romanian. But no matter the sporting challenge: I would not have missed the birth of Marius for the world. The whole story with the rain was a godsend for the press, but for me, it didn’t really made a difference: I would have gone no matter what."

In 2001 he captured the Masters Series Montreal title.

He played his last singles match in his homeland tournament in Bucharest in 2009 to Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay were he also played two more exhibition matches, one facing Goran Ivanišević, while in the other he paired up with Ilie Năstase against the Mansour Bahrami / Yannick Noah pair. The week before, he had been the captain of Romania's Davis Cup team.

After 25 years of living in Germany, he moved to the US state of Arizona. Now he lives in Bucharest, Romania.

Currently coaching Nicholas David Ionel, Filip Jianu and Sebastian Gima.

Coached ATP Tour players Horia Tecău, Benjamin Becker, Marius Copil, the Romanian Davis Cup Team, and worked with Jelena Janković, Tamira Paszek and Simona Halep on the WTA Tour.

2016 Olympic Team Captain (Coach), won silver medal.

Singles (3 wins, 6 losses)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	Apr 1998	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Byron Black	6–3, 6–4
Loss	1.	Apr 1999	Munich, Germany	Clay	Franco Squillari	4–6, 3–6
Loss	2.	Jun 1999	s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Patrick Rafter	6–3, 6–7(7–9), 4–6
Win	2.	May 2000	St. Pölten, Austria	Clay	Andrew Ilie	7–5, 3–6, 6–2
Win	3.	Jul 2001	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Patrick Rafter	7–6(7–3), 2–6, 6–3
Loss	3.	Oct 2003	Paris, France	Carpet	Tim Henman	2–6, 6–7(6–8), 6–7(2–7)
Loss	4.	Apr 2005	Munich, Germany	Clay	David Nalbandian	4–6, 1–6
Loss	5.	May 2006	Pörtschach, Austria	Clay	Nikolay Davydenko	0–6, 3–6
Loss	6.	Jul 2007	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Carlos Moyá	4–6, 2–6

Doubles (6 titles, 5 runners-up)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	Sep 1998	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Gabriel Trifu	George Cosac   Dinu Pescariu	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–4)
Loss	1.	Feb 1999	Saint Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Menno Oosting	Jeff Tarango   Daniel Vacek	6–3, 3–6, 5–7
Loss	2.	Jan 2005	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Mikhail Youzhny	Albert Costa   Rafael Nadal	3–6, 6–4, 3–6
Win	2.	Jul 2005	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Leoš Friedl	Christophe Rochus   Olivier Rochus	6–2, 6–7(5–7), 6–0
Loss	3.	Sep 2005	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Victor Hănescu	José Acasuso   Sebastián Prieto	3–6, 6–4, 3–6
Win	3.	Jan 2006	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Rogier Wassen	Simon Aspelin   Todd Perry	3–6, 7–5, [4–10]
Win	4.	May 2006	Munich, Germany	Clay	Alexander Waske	Alexander Peya   Björn Phau	6–4, 6–2
Win	5.	Jul 2006	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Jiří Novák	Marco Chiudinelli   Jean-Claude Scherrer	6–3, 6–1
Loss	4.	Feb 2007	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard	Alexander Waske	Martin Damm   Leander Paes	3–6, 7–6(7–5), [7–10]
Win	6.	Apr 2007	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Alexander Waske	Rafael Nadal   Bartolomé Salvá Vidal	6–3, 7–6(7–1)
Loss	5.	May 2009	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Horia Tecău	Marcelo Melo   André Sá	7–6(11–9), 2–6, [7–10]

^a 2004 US Open counts as 3 wins, 0 losses. Roger Federer walkover in round 4, after Pavel withdrew because of a back injury, does not count as a Pavel loss (nor a Federer win).